Honey and Mumford Learning Styles

Activists prefer to learn by doing, not reading. They like discovering for themselves. So if you were an activist assembling flat-pack furniture you might start trying to piece it together without reading the instructions. To motivate an activist, allow experimentation.

A pragmatist is motivated by seeing what the benefits the new skill will bring. You would motivate a pragmatist by saying something like “If you learn the Excel statistical functions you will be able to easily analyse the data and therefore impress your boss”.